Room (2015)
Drama
A modern-day story about the boundless love between mother and child; young Jack knows nothing of the world except for the single room in which he was born and raised.
Starring: Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Megan Park, Amanda Brugel, Sean Bridgers
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley, Brendan Gleeson, Michelle Fairley
Director: Ron Howard
Mon roi / My King (2015)
Drama | Romance
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free.
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco, Chrystèle Saint Louis Augustin
Director: Maïwenn
L'étudiante et Monsieur Henri / The Student and Mister Henri (2015)
Comedy
An elderly curmudgeon lets out a room in his large apartment rent-free to a young student – on condition that she does everything in her power to ruin his son's marriage.
Starring: Claude Brasseur, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Noémie Schmidt , Frédérique Bel, Thomas Solivéres
Director: Ivan Calbérac
No Way Out (1987)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Tom Farrell is a dedicated navy officer who, after an act of valor, gets posted to the Pentagon and is assigned to the secretary of defense David Brice. Prior to this, he had become involved with a young woman named Susan Atwell not knowing that she was Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom ironically is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a KGB mole code-named "Yuri." Tom could soon become a suspect in her murder when a indiscernible Polaroid negative of him is found at Susan's place. He only has a few short hours to find the killer before the negative can be processed. Also to make matters worse, he must contend with the ever shrinking noose of the relentless dragnet put in place to find the ever elusive "Yuri!"
Starring: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff, George Dzundza
Director: Roger Donaldson
Brooklyn (2015)
Drama | Romance
The profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Emory Cohen, Emily Bett Rickards
Director: John Crowley
Love the Coopers (2015)
Comedy
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Ed Helms, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Diane Keaton
Director: Jessie Nelson
Free the Nipple (2014)
Comedy | Drama
An army of passionate women launch a revolution to "Free the Nipple" and decriminalize the female body. Based on a true story, this mass movement of topless women, armed with First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations and national publicity stunts, invade New York City to protest the backwards censorship laws in the USA.
Starring: Lola Kirke, Zach Grenier, Lina Esco, Casey LaBow, Monique Coleman, Griffin Newman
Director: Lina Esco
Monsieur Hire / M. Hire (1989)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Monsieur Hire is a maladjusted, balding, middle-aged man living in France. He doesn't like to talk to people. A young woman is murdered and a police detective suspects M. Hire, just because his neighbors think he is strange.
Starring: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Director: Patrice Leconte
Watership Down (1978)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Roy Kinnear, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Martin Rosen
9 mois ferme / 9-Month Stretch (2013)
Comedy
Ariane Felder, a judge of strict morals discovers she's pregnant by Bob Nolan, a criminal wanted for murder.
Starring: Albert Dupontel, Sandrine Kiberlain
Director: Albert Dupontel
Le bossu / On Guard (1997)
Adventure | Drama
The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron's daughter, in her father's isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Duke's friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke's vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back…
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Pérez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette, Jean-François Stévenin
Director: Philippe de Broca
L'homme orchestre / The Band (1970)
Comedy | Musical
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans' nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the fath…
Starring: Louis de Funès, Franco Fabrizi, Paul Préboist, Olivier De Funès
Director: Serge Korber
Who's Driving Doug (2016)
Drama
A sheltered, intelligent college student DOUG (RJ Mitte of "Breaking Bad") changes his life forever when he hires an underachieving driver SCOTT (Ray William Johnson of "Equals Three"). In order to escape his oppressively loving MOTHER (Daphne Zuniga), Doug agrees to go on a spontaneous road trip with Scott and his college crush STEPHANIE (Paloma Kwiatkowski of "Bates Motel"). At the height of the journey, a tragic series of events tests their bond and opens the road to self discovery. Drugs, gambling, and romance await the three friends in this honest American coming of age drama.
Starring: RJ Mitte, Daphne Zuniga, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Shanti Lowry, Alix Elizabeth Gitter, Ray William Johnson
Director: David Michael Conley
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Trumbo (2015)
Biography | Drama
The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he's blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman
Director: Jay Roach
Tower of London (1962)
Drama | History | Horror | Thriller
On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the thrown for himself. The late King had two young sons, his heir, Edward V and the younger Prince Richard, but they are not of age and so names his other brother, Clarence as Lord Protector of the Realm. Gloucester soon kills his younger brother but is haunted by his ghost and what he has done. As he continues to kill those around him, Gloucester is haunted by those he has betrayed hearing voices and slowly descending into madness. He spreads rumors that the late King's two sons are illegitimate and therefore not eligible to ascend to the throne. He assassinates the young princes and is crowned King Richard III. The ghosts from his past have the final say however…
Starring: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Bruce Gordon, Robert Brown, Joan Camden
Director: Roger Corman
Steve Jobs (2015)
Biography | Drama
His passion and ingenuity have been the driving force behind the digital age. However his drive to revolutionize technology was sacrificial. Ultimately it affected his family life and possibly his health. In this revealing film we explore the trials and triumphs of a modern day genius, Steven Paul Jobs.
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Katherine Waterston, Jeff Daniels
Director: Danny Boyle
All American Bikini Car Wash (2015)
Comedy
Jack's hard-partying ways catch up with him when he learns he is failing out of college, but his professor offers him a chance to save his grade by running the local car wash business he owns for a week. But Jack takes on more than he can handle when his friends talk him into turning the business into a bikini car wash!
Starring: Jack Cullison, Jason Lockhart, Kayla Collins, Mindy Robinson, Erika Jordan, Ashley Park, Scarlet Red
Director: Nimrod Zalmanowitz
Les revenants / They Came Back (2004)
Drama | Fantasy
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Starring: Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccaï, Frédéric Pierrot
Director: Robin Campillo
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Cosmic Clash (2016)
Action | Adventure | Animation
Justice League vs Bizarro League – Batman has joined the just formed Justice League in order to keep tabs on Superman, a mistrust that is complicated by Superman’s bad (but well meaning) clone Bizarro and his creation of the Bizarro League, but an even bigger threat forces the two Leagues to join forces.
Starring: Nolan North, Troy Baker, Kari Wahlgren, Diedrich Bader, Tony Todd, Khary Payton
Director: Rick Morales
